Often in themigration literature transnational relations ofmigrants and their institutions with the sending country are described as important factor strengthening or improving the situation of the migrants in the receiving country. The aim of the paper is to empirically prove that in some of the cases the set of multiple conditions affecting immigrant organizations may have the opposite effect. The example of Polish organizations in Germany shows that transnationalization may have as a consequence the limiting, and the degradation of immigrant organizations standing. The four analyzed factors determining the situation of Polish immigrant associational in Germany: the characteristics of immigrant group, the policy of the receiving country towards immigration and IOs, the diaspora policy of the sending country, as well as the bilateral relations between the sending and receiving country together constitute a combination that has a strong negative effect on the functioning of Polish organizations. This all produces an impression of falling into the “trap of transnationalism.”
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The seventieth anniversary of the Institute for Western Affairs is an incentive to reflect on the processes of change which the Institute has gone through. The following topics are discussed: the crises which influenced the functioning of the Institute; the role of outstanding personages who had an impact on the activity of the Institute; continuity and change as two inseparable tendencies that shape the Institute’s contemporary research program; multilevel connections between the scholarship developed at the Institute and politics.
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